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| From | Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Windows %TEMP% folder & files |
| Date | 2025-02-27 16:54 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vpqmtq$39oe4$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 2/27/2025 2:00 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
> Newyana2 wrote:
>> On 2/27/2025 6:15 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
>>
>>> I regularly empty my Temp file in users/ Appdata/ Local. I just go
>>> there, select all, and delete. One file won't delete; FXSAP|
>>> DebugLogFile, associated with Windows Fax.
>>> I don't use Chrome, but Edge puts lots of rubbish in there, and even
>>> after a couple of days from empty it will build to 100MB. Why can't
>>> computer programmers clean up their mess? They're as bad as builders.
>>> I once complained to a builder about that, and he said "Oh, you mean
>>> the bits?"
>>> (:- Bits to him; a clean-up job for me!
>>>
>>
>> He probably has a wife who picks up after him.
>>> You mention a script. Others have mentioned other scripts. I'd be
>>> interested in the best available.
>>> To all; If you think you have the best, post here and I'll try them.
>>>
>>
>> I wrote a script on XP because deleting by hand would often
>> get stopped when one file wouldn't delete. So it was easier to
>> write a VBScript that would keep going when it hit a file it
>> couldn't delete. There were also 3 TEMP folders. C:\,
>> C:\Windows and the appdata TEMP. On Win10 there's still
>> C:\Windows\TEMP. My Intel graphics is using it now.
>>
>> My script is nothing special. It just goes through deleting
>> what it can, gives me a report, then shows a message to run
>> Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
>> in order to clean anything unnecessary out of winsxs.
>>
>>
>
> That one folder is always the only one that is system-locked and
> undeletable. But it provides little hold-up, since WinExplorer tells me
> it can't delete it, gives me highlight, and when I hit ok it's the only
> one left; job finished.
>
> I never get much debris in the other two folders. The C:\Windows Temp
> gets some, but something other than me deletes it occasionally.
>
I just had an interesting experience. My system somehow grew to
22.6 GB -- about 2 GB too big. I looked around and found that the
TEMP folder in winsxs is not emptied by any means. I thought
my DISM line cleaned it, but it turns out what that does is to delete
unneeded old versions of updates and components. In some cases
it can clean up a great deal, especially if you allow Windows Update.
But nothing cleans TEMP. I looked online. How to delete
winsxs\temp\InFlight, which had grown to nearly 4 GB, and all the
files seemed to be dated 2/10. What did I do on 2/10? Beats me.
Is it safe to delete those files? I couldn't find any definitive answer.
Finally I made a current disk image, rebooted, used my handy
utility to remove restrictions from all 12K files(!), and deleted InFlight.
No problems that I can see. Apparently there are some things that
get stuck there. What really strikes me is that so much documentation
is missing for Win10. It's 10 years old. I used to know prety much
everything on 98 and XP. On 10 I find endless folders with mysterious
names, containing files that are equally mysterious. And no one seems
to know what they are. So much crap.
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